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Hearing 101: How Loud IS Loud??!!

Alright.. everyone raise their hands who spent the afternoon with either a chainsaw or string trimmer and felt a little “cloudy” or “muffled” afterwards. Yeah, a lot of us. Put your hands down. Now, how many of us have spent the day on an ATV or motorbike in the backwoods and had that “cloudy” or “muffled” feeling afterwards? OK…. put your hands down. Now how many of us also enjoy listening to music, not just listen, but REALLY listen to the music? Most of us! Did you know you can be damaging your hearing and also hindering your ability to listen to music in a more critical way? Check out some of these numbers below of how loud it can be!

Now here is how long you can be exposed to those levels before temporary damage or hearing loss can occur. Some of these times are VERY short!

These numbers should wake ya up a little bit. Mowing the law for more than 30 min can start to cause hearing damage, which could lead to permanent hearing loss… no, that is not a good excuse to get out of mowing the lawn kids, sorry!

So next time you go to take the ATV out or do some yard work, think about what damage you could be causing to your hearing and look into some decent earplugs!

3 thoughts on “Hearing 101: How Loud IS Loud??!!”

This is a really great article… I would differentiate between damage in general and permanent damage though as the charts you show say that it takes 8 hours to get damage from 90 dB but also says 30 minutes. You should specify what kind of damage we’re talking about (permanent or temporary). Otherwise, it’s a really useful article.